| 单词 | blue fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue fire blue fire n. Theatre (now historical) a blue light (typically produced by igniting a mixture containing sulphur) formerly used on the stage to create an unearthly or ghostly atmosphere, or to convey the effect of supernatural happenings; (hence attributive) sensational.Cf. to burn blue at Phrases 1, blue light n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [adjective] > qualities of play unproduceable1704 playable1725 unproduciblea1760 undramatic1769 unplayable1806 unactable1810 actable1825 blue fire1826 undramatical1829 actor-proof1893 nailed-up1894 talky1937 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects > others red fire1680 lightning box1825 blue fire1826 rain box1867 crash1891 wind-machine1906 1826 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Nov. 749/2 [The piece now performing at Drury Lane] with good machinery and plenty of blue fire, might possibly have been cooked up into a showy afterpiece. 1841 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. Nov. 228/1 Mr. Ingraham..appeals always to the taste of the ultra-romanticists..and thus is obnoxious to the charge of a certain cut-and-thrust, blue-fire, melodramaticism. 1875 C. L. Kenney Mem. M. W. Balfe 131 The same theatre..set up a formidable opposition..in the shape of a blue fire melodrama. 1972 J. House Heart of Glasgow ix. 128 Every now and then the fumes of ‘blue fire’ rose through the chinks in the stage from the nether world. 2007 H. Waters Racism on Victorian Stage 171 A master of blood, thunder and ‘blue fire’. < as lemmas |
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